Tower of Joy

We'll never know.

Within half a year, though, he had gone to war with Ned Stark against her pleading, and he then died at the Tower of Joy.

He was one of Ned's six companions there, along with Mark Ryswell, incidentally.

We're not told exactly who he was, but his name suggests a relation of Lady Barbrey's, so she probably lost two people there.

And also, how does it relate to Jon Snow? There are various theories as to why, which are also the reasons why the idea of her being Jon's mother doesn't make a lot of sense.

One story says she died because her brother Arthur died at the Tower of Joy.

If that was the reason, that's crazy.

She'd kill herself if she just recently had a baby, a.k.a. John.

He heads off to Storm's End to end the siege started by Mace Tyrell.

After that, he and six other companions head just across the border into Dorne.

They arrive at a place called the Tower of Joy where they find three Kingsguard.

There's a fight and the only men who survive are Ned and Howland Reed.

The, the burning is, but the in between maybe isn't so much.

That's a good thing for maybe you all to listen to in between now and a few weeks from now when we do the second half of the play, covering Robert's Rebellion all the way through the Tower of Joy and all the way up to the aftermath.

That is what the play covers.

Uh, one final question here from Jacob Franks is, "Did Aerys like the fact that his son insulted so many noble houses with the act?"

Put it back

... do you end it when, when Ned goes up to the Tower of Joy and Lyanna's like, "Hey bro, this is my son.

He's the heir to I- to the Iron Throne.

Protect him.

Like, that was the, like another baby's born, you know.

That, that's how the play ends is the Tower of Joy?

Basically, where he comes back and, you know, or maybe he didn't come back.

Yeah, because he wasn't named that.

Like, she has a kid, she's chilling with him, and then she just freaking dies.

[laughs]

Yeah, basically it, when we come back from the break, they've been living, like they've been chilling in the Tower of Joy.

Like, Rhaegar's barefoot.

Surely Georgia and Martin will use this as a way to show us what happened in some of the most pivotal moments of the story.

The tourney at Harrenhal, say, the tragedy at Summerhall, the Tower of Joy, who knows where we may end up.

But that is not all, because all the indications are that Bloodraven is either holding back in telling Bran some of the power available to him, or there are things that are beyond Bloodraven that probably won't be beyond Bran.

In Bran's first look through the Weirwood network, he sees his father and calls out in surprise, Winterfell.

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the flashback to the Tower of Joy scene and stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Elsewhere,

you've got like the throne room, you've got different locations out and about, you've got the Tower of Joy, you've got different places where there's battles, right? Now, the way they did battles was very interesting.

I thought it was very clever and maybe some of my lack of theater experience is telling here because I don't know how common this is, but I've never seen anything like this before.

And I heard some people saying the same thing.

Rhaegar, and not just, you know, like family relationships too, you know?

Yeah.

Jacob Franks asks, any cameos from minor characters, Alistair Thorne or Elbert Arryn? Well, there were the Tower of Joy characters, but they weren't named, so we don't, so they were there, but we don't, they never were referred to by name.

I don't even know which was which, other than Howland.